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Direct linkChernyak, Nadia; Harris, Paul L.; Cordes, Sara – Child Development, 2022
Recent work has probed the developmental mechanisms that promote fair sharing. This work investigated 2.5- to 5.5-year-olds' (N = 316; 52% female; 79% White; data collected 2016-2018) sharing behavior in relation to three cognitive correlates: number knowledge, working memory, and cognitive control. In contrast to working memory and cognitive…
Descriptors: Computation, Preschool Children, Number Concepts, Short Term Memory
Petersen, Lori A.; McNeil, Nicole M. – Child Development, 2013
Educators often use concrete objects to help children understand mathematics concepts. However, findings on the effectiveness of concrete objects are mixed. The present study examined how two factors--perceptual richness and established knowledge of the objects--combine to influence children's counting performance. In two experiments, preschoolers…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Manipulative Materials, Computation, Knowledge Level
Peer reviewedFuson, Karen C.; And Others – Child Development, 1983
In the first experiment, observations were made of children ages four-and-a-half to five-and-a-half years of age who were induced to use counting or matching in a Piagetian number conservation task. The spontaneous matching and counting behavior of a more mature but not yet conserving sample was investigated in the second experiment. (RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computation, Conservation (Concept), Numbers
